First planting of Shad June 27,
1871, Sacramento River at Tehama, California.10,000 Shad fry in presence of the California Fishery Commissioners.

A few Shad taken in the Columbia 1876 or 1877, maybe from Sacramento
planting.

United States Fish Commission, 1885,
50,000 Shad in WillametteRiver; 10,000
Snake River near its junction with the Columbia; 1886, 550,000 fry WillametteRiver at Albany; 300,000 in the Columbia
at Wallula Junction, Washington.

Laws enacted by the Oregon Legislature in 1913
and 1915 defined Catfish, Bass and Crappie as game fish and made their sale unlawful.

LARGEMOUTH BASS

April 1893, Multnomah Rod & Gun Club proposal to stock Largemouth
Bass from Washington Fish Commission in the Willamette because a fisherman must go 30 to 40 miles from home to get any sort of fishing.

1888 (approximately) E.W. Bingham
in two reaches of the Willamette.First official
planting in the Willamette by the United States Fish Commission occurred a few years afterward…1893(?)

Heaviest release of record for Oregon, 500 yearling fish near Salem
by United States Fish Commission.

July 189575 Doves Lake, Salem

25 Mill Creek near Dalles

75 Branch of Powder River, BakerCounty

1892, United States Fish Commission,
1597 fish in BoiseRiver.

SMALLMOUTH BASS

Mr. Burghduff, Master Game
Warden of Oregon
(1921-1925), 425 in OswegoLake
1923.United States Bureau of Fisheries had frowned upon the tentative suggestion.

1924 Mr. Burghduff, upper WillametteRiver.

1925, 5000 fish planted in Yakima River by N.E. Palmer, State Game Protector.

1934, second planting by N.E. Palmer.

(The Bass is not a "suck-egg")

TROUT

April 1893, Multnomah Rod &
Gun Club proposal to stock Largemouth Bass from Washington Fish Commission in the Willamette because a fisherman must go 30 to 40 miles from home to get any sort of fishing.

Trout limit 1904, 125 fish, no closed
season.1941 Oregon State Game Commission in cooperation with United States Fish
& Wildlife Service and United States Forest Service intensive study of stocking Oregon
streams with hatchery Rainbow Trout.